41 articlesSelling items in Windrose is one of those things that feels like it should be simple but ends up confusing a lot of players early on. As you can see, turning all of your loot into money is not as straightforward as most survival RPGs.
After all, the game does not have a central marketplace where you can offload everything in one go. Instead, every sellable item is tied to a specific faction.
To make things a little trickier, not every NPC you meet will buy from you. There is a difference between provisioners who sell items to you and buyers who purchase from you, and some buyers are locked behind quest progression entirely.
To help you with that, this guide breaks down how the whole system works so you can stop hauling loot around with nowhere to put it.
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A lot of players simply assume Tortuga works like a traditional marketplace where you can dump your inventory and move on. However, Windrose uses a faction-based economy system instead, where specific buyers only accept specific types of loot.
Some items can’t even be sold at all. Selling in the game revolves around faction Buyers. There are four factions in Windrose, and every item you pick up can only be sold to one specific faction. To figure out who wants your loot, simply hover over the item in your inventory.
The tooltip will tell you exactly which faction will buy it. However, Provisioners and Bounty Agents won’t buy regular loot from you even if they belong to the same faction. You can only transact with a Buyer NPC for your loot.
The current factions are the Brethren of the Coast, People of Tortuga, Rogue Buccaneers, and the Smugglers of Port Royal.
You can find their representatives hanging around the central hub of Tortuga. These NPCs are useful for buying gear from the faction or increasing your reputation with them, but they will not take your loot. If you actually want to sell the items, you need to visit that faction’s hideout in the world.
Each hideout has a specific “Buyer” NPC standing somewhere inside, to whom you can sell your loot to.
How to Find Each Faction’s Hideout
Now when it comes to finding these hideouts, there’s really no exact location since the world is procedurally generated, meaning your map will look different from that of other players.
That said, you can unlock three of the factions simply by progressing through the main story quests. The Rogue Buccaneers, the Smugglers of Port Royal, and the People of Tortuga will all show up as you follow the narrative.
The Brethren of the Coast are the exception. You can only find them by actually sailing around and exploring the world on your own.
To identify a hideout, hover over the icons on your map. The tooltip will tell you if that icon belongs to a specific faction. The image above shows the locations of the hideouts from my own playthrough, just so you can see what the icons look like and how they appear on the map.
Things to Keep in Mind
As mentioned earlier, Tortuga doesn’t work as a traditional marketplace. Instead, it’s more of a central progression hub where you can buy faction gear, increase reputation, and unlock contracts.
You won’t be able to sell items in there at all.
It’s also worth noting that not all loot can be sold. One of the biggest misconceptions early on is assuming every item has monetary value.
However, lots of materials, tools, weapons, crops, and crafting resources are not meant to be sold at all. In newer versions of the game, salvaging outdated equipment or repurposing materials is usually more valuable than hoarding them for trade.
If an item does not list a faction buyer in its description, it is typically meant for either crafting, upgrades, quests, or salvaging. This becomes especially important later on in your progression when storage space and cargo weight become a huge concern.
Wrapping Up
And this is everything you needed to know about how selling items works in Windrose. It is a bit of work finding these hideouts, and the devs intend for it to be that way.
Once you understand the difference between Buyers, Provisioners, and faction hubs, it will be a lot easier to manage the game’s entire economy. You will start remembering where each faction hangs out and which buyer takes what. The coins roll in, your inventory stays clean, and you stop running around confused.
You just have to keep in mind that Tortuga is not your main selling location. Rather, you should work on unlocking faction home bases to start selling your loot.
